Williamson v. . Spivey’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2017
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
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“"... [W]here the trial court has acted in a matter, every presumption not inconsistent with the record will be indulged in favor of jurisdiction. ..." Nothing else appearing, we apply "the prima facie presumption of rightful jurisdiction which arises from the fact that a court of general jurisdiction has acted in the matter." As a result, "[t]he burden is on the party asserting want of jurisdiction to show such want." ... [Given] the presumption of regularity that attaches to the trial court's decision to exercise jurisdiction, the Court of Appeals had no basis to conclude that the petition was not properly verified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.